Tucked away inside an interview room at Oracle Arena, bolted on a wall to the right of the stage, is a large, expensive-looking TV that serves a singular purpose.

The 50-inch screen has been transformed into a full-framed box score, allowing media members, coaches and players to evaluate numbers in real time after games, providing data to frame questions and answers. When the game starts, the box score is a direct correlation of what happens on the floor — who plays, who scores, who misses shots, and on and on.

But before the Nuggets faced the Warriors last week, before starting lineups had been submitted by teams, the box score contained a glitch, a dose of irony in HD. Michael Porter Jr., the rookie who has yet to play for the Nuggets, had been awarded two points, credited with making one of his two theoretical field-goal attempts. The basket, this faux box score suggested, had been assisted by Nikola Jokic. Apparently, Denver’s All-Star center even drops...